Sentence examples for dip for the first from inspiring English sources

Profits are set to dip for the first time in five years.

Still, Mr. Gelb said, seeing the state prison numbers dip for the first time since 1972 "took us a little bit by surprise," he said.

Line saw user numbers dip for the first time in January — despite a record year of revenue in 2016 — while its userbase increasingly limited to four countries: Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand.

The fault plane was divided into 13 (along strike) × 9 (along dip) subfaults with a size of 4 km (along strike) × 2 km (along dip) for the first step.

U.S. flat-panel television shipments are expected to dip for the first time on an annual basis this year, ending an unbroken string of growth since the segment first began.

In a stark indication of widening national distress, consumer spending dipped for the first time in 17 years.

The number slaughtered in their heartland in South Africa, which has four-fifths of the continent's rhino, dipped for the first time since the crisis exploded nearly a decade ago.

Playa Migjorn is 10km long but has only one medium-sized hotel in the middle of it so it's an ideal place to try skinny dipping for the first time.

It still has more page views than any other Web site in the world — more than 1.3 billion a day — although that figure dipped for the first time in December 2007, according to comScore.

News that copper prices had recovered from recent falls as Chinese inventories dipped for the first time in two months and the dollar weakened, helped lift Anglo American 54.5p to 1100.5p, BHP Billiton 53.5p to £15.39 and Rio Tinto 69p to 2914.5p.

Just a couple weeks ago, Android's market share dipped for the first time since 2009 according to IDC.